Consciousness and moral status / / by Joshua Shepherd.

It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of conscio...

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Place / Publishing House:Boca Raton, FL : : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,, [2018].
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Routledge focus on philosophy.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 111 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
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